Health Care

What’s at Stake for Business

Global health issues have risen to the top of the agenda as policymakers struggle to ensure the best quality health care at an affordable price.

There are limited opportunities for business to engage with the WHO. Engagement with the OECD on health care issues is critical as the OECD’s work often mirrors WHO priorities.

The challenges to health care systems and the implications of non-wage labor costs affect competitiveness and economic growth as the economy is broadly dependent on healthy and active populations and workforces.

To address NCDs, governments are looking at ways to further regulate food and beverage products. This may result in sin taxes, labeling, marketing, advertising and trade restrictions.

Current Priorities

Encourage the OECD to adopt a multi-stakeholder approach to health care solutions.

Promote disease prevention and healthy lifestyles.

Demonstrate that business is instrumental in finding innovative solutions for sustainable health care systems and in addressing the urgent health care challenges we face today, such as non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

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USCIB at Work

Through our global network, we are able to showcase the private sector’s positive contributions to health care issues as well as provide industry expertise into the policymaking process:

At the OECD, where we are engaging with the OECD Health Committee to promote business as a solutions partner for today’s global health challenges.

At the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Committee on World Food Security, where we are working with UN officials and policymakers to address global poverty and food security.

At UN Headquarters, where we are laboring to ensure that the business community is seen as an essential partner to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Recent Advocacy Engagement

USCIB is the lead voice for U.S. business within international forums determining health care policies and is:

Reinforcing the need for multistakeholder initiatives and the central role of science and evidence-based data in developing policy.

Making the case that fiscal policy is complex and sin taxes are not the best tax practice.

Advocating for a holistic approach to assessing the value of medicines.

Who We Are

The USCIB Health Care Working Group is composed of USCIB member companies representing a range of business and industry sectors. Advocacy priorities are determined that reflect consensus among the members.

Mission

The Working Group aims to support multistakeholder approaches to global health policy by providing international organizations with expertise and policy advice on:

The broader economic and social consequences of national health care policies.

The long-term innovative potential of the health care sector and the broader health ecosystem.

The quality and costs of health care labor and technology.

The health care related impacts on the capacity of employers to compete and provide jobs and support for their employees.

Official Report from USCIB Nutrition Event Now Published(1/17/2018)-Wilton Park USA, in partnership with the USCIB Foundation and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), has published a report as follow up to last October's successful joint dialogue on “No More Missed Opportunities: Advancing Public-Private Partnerships to Achieve the Global Nutrition Goals.”

Michael Michener is USCIB’s vice president of product policy and innovation, joining USCIB in early 2017. Michener is a former administrator of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service who has also served as a U.S. trade diplomat and association executive. Michener most recently served in Brussels as director of multilateral relations for CropLife International, representing the association before a range of international organizations – including the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, the UN Environment Program and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – on issues related to crop protection products and agriculture biotechnology.Read More